Peter Brown on Nostr: Margaret Thatcher and her acolytes were profoundly dishonest in allowing the belief ...

Margaret Thatcher and her acolytes were profoundly dishonest in allowing the belief to grow that her “housewife” economic policies were driving economic growth. In fact, if the oil had started to flow a year earlier, she might never have been elected because the economic growth of the country for the entirety of her rule was funded by windfall oil revenue.
Dennis Healy is on record as saying that had he had the benefit of oil revenues history might have been very different.